Lots of cool stuff this week! I'm looking forward to checking out the new futur library for async programming, and the developments around embedding graphics in a canvas in Emacs look interesting too (see the Multimedia section). Also, the discussion about making beginner configuration easier could be neat once the wrinkles are ironed out. Enjoy!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/313006896/ Tue Feb 24 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 26 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 28 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3147760f-1a8b-4996-9b3c-2773d7d360ca Mon Mar 2 1900 CET
• Upcoming events:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: I will talk about Emacs and free software (FLOSS @ Oxford)
• Emacs configuration:
  • A proposal for a "beginners" (user-option) theme (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org)
  • package-autosuggest in master (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org)
  • Charles Choi: Deburring Emacs Imenu GUI Configuration
  • Borderliner/Chadmacs: Chadmacs Emacs config (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • GNU ELPA - futur: Make async programming a bit easier (Reddit, emacs-devel)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Lin version 2.0.0 - enhancement for hl-line-mode
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Introducing winpulse (Irreal, Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Automatically Syncing Emacs Tab Bar Styling With Your Theme
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: my GNOME accent color theme switcher package (YouTube 02:55)
  • fake-frog/min-oblong-theme: Minimal Emacs Theme (Reddit)
  • veschin/nibelung-theme: Nibelung Theme — Minimalist Gray & Blue Emacs Color Scheme (Reddit)
  • Thankful Eyes Theme | Emacs Themes (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Navigation:
  • scrollpanel: Modern Minimap-like Scrolling Panel for Emacs
  • Prgebish/flash: Flash-style navigation for Emacs — jump to any location with search labels (Reddit)
  • UPDATED: Auto-Adjust Frame Width when Split-Window-Right & Revert on Delete-Window or Delete-Other-Window
  • easysession.el: Easily persist and restore file buffers, Magit buffers, scratch, Dired, narrowing, indirect buffers (clones), windows, and tab-bar configurations [Release 1.2.0]​ (Reddit)
  • kirigami.el (Release 1.0.4): text Folding across a diverse set of Emacs modes (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Why and How I am Using Emacs for Writing My Next Novel (Reddit, programming.dev, lemmy.ml)
  • bibtex-generate-autokey with manual confirmation using advice-add :filter-return
  • Fancy Fill Paragraph now on MELPA (Reddit)
  • ashton314/citar-typst: Typst support for the Citar package in Emacs - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Mapping org-agenda-open-link: reducing the key strokes needed to open links (@curtismchale@mastodon.social)
  • publicvoit/orgheadingnetwork: visualize headings and their implicit (hierarchy) and explicit (links) interconnections - Codeberg.org (@publicvoit@graz.social)
  • Updated org-protocol bookmarklet for storing the current page
  • A reproducible Org-Mode CV template (Reddit)
  • org-babel support for Goal, BQN, and growler/k
  • Behebung von org-babel Shell-Bindungsproblemen in Emacs: Eine Anleitung zur Festlegung Ihrer bevorz (01:50)
  • Org development:
    • etc/ORG-NEWS (Version 9.8 (not released yet)): Update preparing for the release
    • Obsolete 'org-show-empty-lines-in-parent'
    • Remove obsolete 'org-let' and 'org-let2'
• Completion: this month's Emacs Carnival topic
  • An Alternate Completing Read
• Coding:
  • npm-run: Run npm scripts in your project
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Neocaml 0.1: Ready for Action (Irreal)
  • Small patch to build emacs 30.X from source with the 0.26.X version of tree-sitter · GitHub (Reddit)
  • function-artisans/magit-standup: Collect recent git commits for standup notes (Reddit)
  • magit magic - share your latest glorious find in Magit
  • Hacking on Emacs #6: Link the current Magit commit using git-link pt 2 (28:49)
  • magit-gh.el - a lightweight Magit extension for GitHub CLI pull requests (Reddit)
  • 0WD0/majutsu: Majutsu! Magit for jujutsu (lobste.rs)
• Web:
  • benthamite/chrome-to-eww: Chrome extension to open the current page in eww, Emacs’s built-in browser (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • 2026年，一个普通Emacs用户如何把Gnus跑起来
• Evil mode:
  • Prgebish/evil-tex-ts: Tree-sitter based LaTeX text objects for Evil mode (Reddit)
• Doom Emacs:
  • pimacs/lang-protobuf at master · pivaldi/pimacs · GitHub protobuf-ts-mode for editing Protocol Buffers files with full Buf toolchain integration.
• Multimedia:
  • divyaranjan/divya-lambda: Guix channel for emacs-canvas (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Discussion on the composability of graphical applications inside Emacs - MonadicSheep/pale - Codeberg.org (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • minad/emacs-shader-demo: Emacs Shader Demo (Reddit)
  • Demo of killing and yanking a canvas while it's displaying something (ex: a video)
• Fun:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Toy train timetable improvements – buttons
• AI:
  • FrauH0lle/mevedel overlay-based workflow for interacting with LLMs (Reddit)
  • ECA - Subagents are here!
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy v2.0 - LLMs can now call Emacs functions! (YouTube 00:41, Reddit)
  • garyo/gco-llm-pkm: A LLM-based front end to my evolving Personal Knowledge Management system(s) (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-02-10 / week 06
  • Andros Fenollosa: Emacs is a Fantasy Workstation
    • Emacs es una estación de trabajo de fantasía | Andros Fenollosa (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Other:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: institution-calendar package (University of Oxford/Cambridge, etc.)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: add custom entity (Austrian school) to my ‘institution-calendar’
  • chamlis/auth-source-pa: A terrible backend for auth-source to use the pa password manager. - Codeberg.org (@chamlis@social.treehouse.systems)
  • Translate popup by agzam · Pull Request #161 · atykhonov/google-translate · GitHub (Reddit)
  • A Note on File History in Emacs | Brain Baking
  • ctietze/quake-frame.el - Codeberg.org - terminal visor-like package that can be toggled with Emacsclient (@ctietze@mastodon.social)
  • Initial gathering towards a "Collaborative Editing Protocol" - Feb 26 19:00 UTC, cross-editor (@teamtype@fosstodon.org)
• Emacs development:
  • Change the default value of 'split-width-threshold' from 160 to 150
  • Add repeat-map for smerge-mode commands
  • delsel.el: Improve the overlay for text replacement
  • etc/NEWS: Improve text for threads' "buffer disposition"
  • New option 'completion-preview-inhibit-functions' (bug#80370)
  • Original behavior of 'overlays-in' and 'overlays-at' has been restored
  • Rewrite flex completion with Gotoh algorithm
  • Tramp signals 'remote-file-error' consequently
  • Allow disabling battery-update-timer
  • icomplete-ret: Ignore icomplete-show-matches-on-no-input
  • system-sleep sleep blocker and sleep/wake event package (bug#80348)
  • Don't remap RET to 'icomplete-ret' in 'icomplete-mode' (bug#62108)
  • Revert "New key 'M-j' for 'icomplete-mode' (bug#62108)"
  • Do cache and timed invalidation in "VC-aware" project backend
• New packages:
  • fancy-fill-paragraph: Fancy paragraph fill (MELPA)
  • flash: Flash-style navigation (MELPA)
  • futur: Future/promise-based async library (GNU ELPA)
  • helm-emoji: Select emojis with Helm (MELPA)
  • lonelog: Solo RPG notation support (MELPA)
  • neocaml: Major mode for OCaml code (MELPA)
  • oboe: A simple temporary buffer management framework (MELPA)
  • pathaction: Execute the pathaction.yaml rules from your editor (MELPA)
  • sail: NOAA tide and wind reports for sailors (MELPA)
  • spatial-window: Jump to windows using keyboard spatial mapping (MELPA)
  • template-literals-ts-mode: Tree-sitter support for HTML/CSS in JS/TS template literals (MELPA)
  • vtab: Vertical tab bar (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!